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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even in high school?  I had hoped that the kids would make their own friends by high school.  [/quote]

Of course they make their own friends but there is a very significant social component at certain schools with heavily involves entire families and parents etc... If you are not friends with the parents you are not included or part of it and neither is your child. [/quote]

Curious if this is the culture at Gonzaga, Prep or SJC?[/quote]

Our experience at two of these schools was that a good proportion of the parents already knew one another from their own youth. In many cases there were family ties. They had gone to school together, lived in the same neighborhoods, belonged to the same parishes, played in the same CYO leagues. They frequently had either attended these schools or had family members that had.

SJC and GZA are larger so there are fewer “natives” as percentage of the population. GZA has a large group from Virginia who are outside the MD/NWDC Catholic community.

But this has little impact on the kids and next to no impact on the parents since there really isn’t the “very significant social component” suggested to in the post above.

The sports teams have tailgates and parent gatherings. But if your kid is on the team, you are automatically part of the group. The only time it might be an issue would be if a “new” parent wanted to be active in a Parent’s Club. There you might find that parents who were themselves alumni might have stronger voices.

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